NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
At NELFT, we are dedicated to continuously improving CAMHS provision across Barking & Dagenham in collaboration with our commissioners, partner agencies and co-production with our young people and their carers. We're looking for an experienced professional clinical practitioner registered with the appropriate regulatory body (e.g., HCPC, NMC), with proven CAMHS experience and a passion for supporting others and being a team player.
If you are ready to inspire, innovate, and work collaboratively in a dedicated team and in a progressive environment, we encourage you to apply.
The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership into the YJS and Complex Senior Pathway Lead in B&D CAMHS Service. The post holder will lead operations for the B&D Youth Justice Service and Complex Pathway in the B&D CAMHS team, collaborating closely with the Senior B&D CAMHS Management Team. Provide managerial and clinical leadership while contributing to service development, referral management, and fostering interagency collaboration.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to undertake highly specialist assessments in order to contribute to the clinical leadership and oversight for mental health assessments and interventions within the YJS context and Complex Pathway process and to formulate areas of strengths and needs based on good practice and evidence. Conduct thorough assessments to identify mental health needs and formulate appropriate treatment plans.
Provide operational and clinical leadership to the YJS and Complex pathway for children/YP in B&D CAMHS Service.
Provide a high quality, accessible, timely, efficient, effective, comprehensive and specialist psychological service for children and adolescents referred to YJS and Complex pathway and to provide this service also to their carers/parents and families.
Provide and/or support the provision of evidence-based assessments and psychological interventions for service users. This will include providing highly specialist assessments and contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment of children and young people referred onto the Complex pathway and ensuring waiting lists are at clinically safe level.
Support and deputise for other pathways and pathway leads in the B&D CAMHS Service.
Job responsibilities
* Lead and develop the role/service of the YJS and Complex Senior Pathway within the CAMHS Service by identifying service needs, developing the pathways in line with best practice and developing innovative solutions to meet these needs.
* Advise NELFT colleagues and other relevant services on areas of emerging clinical practice, risk assessment and how these might be incorporated into current team activity.
* Attend relevant meetings to provide a resource on clinical health psychological factors for other team members, and through consultation and advice, lead the psychological dimension of the pathway.
* Lead on the delivery of specialist psychological assessment, interventions, treatment, advice and support for service users (and families/carers) referred within the care pathway.
* Take a lead role in aspects of the clinical and professional development supporting the psychology team that deliver neurodevelopmental clinical services.
* Develop the ethos of evidence-based practice within the community of referrers.
* Provide specialist psychological advice, guidance, and consultation to other professionals, to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of service users.
* Produce professional communications in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users.
Use of AI Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse, AHP or Social worker
Knowledge
* Knowledge of emotional, developmental, mental health problems and life span issues.
* Knowledge of legislation in relation to children and adolescents and safeguarding procedures and policies.
* Risk management and ability to monitor and assess risk and act accordingly to ensure safety.
Skills
* Ability to tolerate anxiety without recourse to premature action and work under pressure.
* Ability to integrate complex clinical information into a coherent formulation.
* Ability to communicate highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues.
Experience
* Experience of Mental Health assessments.
* Working in YJS service or experience with assessments.
* Audit, teaching and training.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Head of CYP Emotional and Mental Health Service
£62,215 to £72,293 a year plus HCAS per annum
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